The idea of boxchannel is to have a network shared directory where two boxchannel agents can set up a communication channel with each other. Allowing you to share large amounts of data over a fixed size shared directory.

Project goal: Point a GUI to a Dropbox directory you share with friend and have it manage downloads and uploads while keeping the total directory size under (say) 200MB.

BEWARE: All these scripts will create files, including ~/.boxchannel.json and directories and files in your ~/Dropbox directory. These scripts are currently for DEVELOPERS ONLY.

Add files to your index. Index files are currently in ~/Dropbox/boxchannel/_userid_.index Each line is a absolute path followed by each of the block hashes. The userid is a random number generated if there is no ~/.boxchannel/prefs.json file with an id in it.

Currently the library containing all logic, a big box of all functions.

For each request, see if our local index has a block for it, then publish the block and remove the request.

Given a filename, search all index databases for that file and when found, request all blocks of the file.

Use virtualenv to create a python environment and install boxchannel in it. You also need the virtualenv to use other scripts.

Collect all responses which match with a request we did earlier (empty files in staging area) and try to fill them with data. As soon as we have a full file, collect the staged block and dump them in a single file in the ~/Downloads directory

• Refactor boxchannel into a real kind of library
• Add --append support to index.py to allow you to write find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 -P1 -n1000 index.py --append
• Add --help support to all scripts
• Add data security (hash before storage copying a block, delete blocks of the right size with the wrong hash)
• Add a GUI to show progress of downloads, etc.
• Combine all scripts into a single cool kind of program